Bright Canopy Returns

Bright Canopy is the company replacing SL Go. They bring Second Life to tablets and other low GPU power devices. See: Bright Canopy. Run Second Life in your web browser.

Vive Headset Awesome

Maria Korolov has written about her experience using the Vive VR headset being designed by Steam & HTC. According to her Vive is as far ahead of Oculus Rift SDK2 as Rift is ahead of Google Cardboard, which is impressive.

Cable Robot Simulator for VR

One of the big problems I see with VR is running into the coffee table. But, someone has gotten the idea they can use a cable system to suspend people and move according to what they do. If you watch football (the USA kind) you see a field camera from time to time. It is the one on cables.

The idea is to use the same tech but hook it up to a platform for you to sit on/in and have it controlled by your motions. So, flying a plane could be very much like being in one of the Disney rides that uses one of the Boeing simulators, the big boxes on hydraulic legs.

Max Graft on Virtual Reality

If you don’t know who Max is… well you don’t know. However, this year he has spent a huge amount of time learning all he could about AR and VR (Augmented Reality – Google Glass is/was AR). Now he has written a long article on the subject. Or more accurately a treatise.